tight black leggings and big foofy boots

Yay!

can a man pull off foofy boots?

Gary Thain of Uriah Heap says, "YES!"

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/jazzbo58/thain5.jpg

omg good look

a lot of the chinese students at northwestern when i worked there would wear uggs. i didn't think it was agl but sth like the above is cooler

for def. uggs are definitely more of like a women from suburbia thing. i think. i don't know. i feel like uggs have gotten very controversial lately.

Want those pants.

I really think the actual combination described in thread title is now extinct in the wild.

Nah, it's diminished but I saw it a few times over the cold season

definitely still happening but perhaps less so

really just depends where you live. if i went back to my hometown on Long Island for an afternoon i could guarantee at least 2 snapshots of this.

girls at my school have been doing this + puffy vest + ballcap -- it's just such a frumpy and unsexy look

unless you really like han solo

go to any american college campus and it is definitely still happening xps

also plenty of elementary and high school age girls are still wearing this look

i'm sorry but foofy boot AND puffy vest is wayyyy too much and they should check themselves

lol ballcap <3 school

puffy vests always make people look like an assistant at a garden centre imo, not to say that is a good or a bad thing

I go to an American college campus - but it really has faded IMO! Tight black leggings still to be seen, but the big foofy boots that tied it all together have been aggressively purged. Maybe it's an NYC thing.

I associate puffy vests - like, ski vests? - with punks and hipsters of a decade ago, scruffy folk in raggedly cut-off denim patched with band logos, stained t-shirts, and brightly colored happy ski vests. I've held onto one partly out of nostalgia for those times though I suspect it's years since I actually put the darn thing on.

they are almost always black and archaeoptryx/patagonia/north face/some other sporting goods company brand, don't see many of the bright 80s earth tone/primary color ones. those i actually like and would wear if i had any.

well the thing is too that we're not really addressing is that the foofy boot is about to make a comeback in style in general. it went out for like a hot second when people got sick of the studio 54 look, but anticipate some electric gray leather foofy boots in your US Weekly sometime soon.

yea it's the outdoor geary vests that i see more of for sure xp

i really just wish giant shawls would disappear more than i hate uggs

i can sign off on that but i'm very interested in the shawl DRESS which is very powerful to see in person

Unsexy and frumpy can be a look of choice if you want to be left alone to study or do as you please without attracting attention.

OTM. Or if you just like the way something looks or feels and don't care if you are pleasing to anyone else's eye.

i just bought a bunch of baggy pants and all i wear are company giveaway tshirts these days so i can safely also cosign on this

http://imgur.com/gallery/kI8B6ki

one thing i've noticed about college girls in boston (the less-preppy ones at least) is that so many of them wear military-style jackets, i like them!

they range from more stylish to frumpy and imo they all look pretty cool

olive green is just a nice color imo

let's not turn this into a feminist objectification thing

i'm feeling v confident abt my own style choices lately so it's likely i'm just projecting ^_^;;

in the same way that i complain about the gay male "beard + shaved sides long top hair" clone archetype it's not the thing in itself, just the repetition of seeing it everywhere that's tiring and suggests to me basic-ness

A bunch of dudes criticizing how women look, yes let's not get all feminist about it.

*rolls eyes*, i can present my Feminist Cred Association card to you anytime you like. ;)

btw, did you ever get your fragrance made?

It's curing or steeping or molting or whatever. Should be done by the 20th, I think?

And FYI your feminist cred association card doesn't mean shit in light of comments like "let's not turn this into a feminist objectification thing" after women post mild protests re: your critique of women's public presentation.

lol, calm down sheesh! not everything is an occasion to feel the obligation to be offended! but i will quietly step out of the room now.

gay guys have plenty to worry about too in terms of appearance is all i will say

Good lord, son, yes I think that's a good idea. I could win some kind of "anti-feminist troll bingo" off your last four posts alone. xp

No doubt! But this isn't gay guys v. women in the objectification sweepstakes. This is two women very, very gently calling out dudes who they know and like for judging women's appearance in a way that they found to be uncool, and one of those dudes being very... interesting in response.

lol fuck off, i really dgaf

we can talk about the white supremacist tendencies of these lululemon clones if you like.

okay i will stay out of itttt

notice i never made any gross comments about cameltoes or women's asses, i just said it's a boring look! anyway peace, i bow to the REI in you. later.

I mean, maybe take LL and my comments as the gift they are meant to be instead of jumping right to "oh no angry feminists are getting their black leggings in a twist just calm down ladies," which is a way worse look than Uggs and puffy vests or whatever the sartorial issue was.

clearly a touchy subject rn but giant shawls are fun, it's like being a kid & wearing a cape to the supermarket

well my one coworker has essentially this cape dress that i believe is in wool. it is absolutely gorgeous.

Wearing a cape dress to the supermarket would be good because of all the shoplifting you could do.

i like wearing my huge cocoon shawl thing with leggings bc then i can ALSO pretend I'm debbie allen

giant shawls can edge into Dorothy Zbornak territory

lol yes